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Our project Flama Circular is a Gold Winner at The 31st Annual Communicators Awards Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts in the cause of General-Non-Profit, Excellence 2025 General-Environmental & Sustainability, Distinction 2025
We have competed with greats like Netflix, Oliver Wyman, Getty Museum, Apple, PepsiCo, McKesson, Savannah College of Art and Design, George P. Johnson Experience Marketing, The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal, Zeta Global, Bank of America and many others.
The carbon footprint of natural fibres such as flax, hemp, jute or kenaf is much lower than their counterparts glass and mineral fibres. The production of 1 tonne of glass fibres shows a carbon footprint of about 1.7–2.5 tonnes CO2-eq per tonne of fibre, whereas natural fibres only have a carbon footprint of about 0.35–0.55 tonnes CO2-eq per tonne of fibre (until the factory gate, excluding transport to the customer, using mass allocation). This is an 80% lower carbon footprint than that of glass fibres.
The 57-page study “Carbon Footprint and Sustainability of Different Natural Fibres for Biocomposites and Insulation Material – Study providing data for the automotive and insulation industry” was conducted in 2018 and published in March 2019 by nova-Institute, Germany.
The Anthem Awards is the largest and most comprehensive social impact award that recognizes the greatest change-makers and global leaders.
FlamaCircular competed among 2,300 proposals from 44 countries around the world, with recognized brands and organizations such as UNICEF USA, Amazon Music, World Economic Forum, National Geographic, World Bank, The Obama Foundation, Google, United Nations, WWF, among many other projects.
We won in three categories:
• Partnership or collaboration: Gold Anthem Winner
• Special projects: Bronze Anthem Winner
• Education or literacy platform: Bronze Anthem Winner
UNSUSTAINABLE is a short documentary that gives an insight into the (un)sustainability of the surf industry, starting by the basic element needed, the surfboard.
Shapers around Europe give us their point of view about the fact that surfing, an activity originally based on respect and contact with nature, has become an industry of oil-based products. Alternatives do already exist, it’s only a matter of embracing them and detach ourselves from the image and lack of attention towards the envirtonment that the surf industry has hold over the past years.
Featuring: Job Verpoorte (Jabali Surfb.), Ze Antunes (Yoni Surfb.) and Sergi Galanó (Flamasurf)
In 2021 the NGO Good Karma Projects , under the program #RIDE&RESPECT conducted a study to understand the behavior of surfing consumers when purchasing a new surfboard. The results should help us understand how we, as concious surfboard makers, are seen and which steps we should take in order to convince surfers that our alternatives are trustful and worth.
COURSE 1: Satuday 7th December
COURSE 2: Saturday 14th December
PRICE: 145€ lunch included
WHERE: Longwinter Glassing shop, Chiclana
In addition, you will learn the latest in sustainable board construction: materials, foams, buiding techniques, vacuum technology…
The FlamaVolta tech is one of the most environmentally friendly construction methods today. A lamination method that is carbon negative, with no fiberglass and carcinogenic chemicals involved, that allows to make high performance and longlasting surfboards.
Limited spaces!
Contact us at info@flamasurf.com
NEXT DATES: 2nd to 6th December
In this workshop you will build, start to finish, your own high performance surfboard with the latest technology from Flamasurf. The FlamaVolta tech is one of the most environmentally friendly construction methods today. A lamination method with no fiberglass and toxic chemicals involved, that allows to make high performance and longlasting surfboards.
Get more info here
or contact us at info@flamasurf.com
